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  2. Big Bang - Wikipedia

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    English astronomer Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term "Big Bang" during a talk for a March 1949 BBC Radio broadcast, [45] saying: "These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past." [46] [47] However, it did not catch on until the 1970s ...

  3. History of the Big Bang theory - Wikipedia

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    Much of the theoretical work in cosmology now involves extensions and refinements to the basic Big Bang model. The theory itself was originally formalised by Father Georges Lemaître in 1927. [1] Hubble's law of the expansion of the universe provided foundational support for the theory.

  4. Timeline of cosmological theories - Wikipedia

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    The elements of the universe are created, used by Brahma, and fully dissolved within a maha-kalpa (life of Brahma; 100 of his 360-day years) period lasting for 311.04 trillion years containing 36,000 kalpas (days) and pralayas (nights), and is followed by a maha-pralaya period of full dissolution equal in duration.

  5. Cosmogony - Wikipedia

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    The Big Bang theory, which explains the Evolution of the Universe from a hot and dense state, is widely accepted by physicists.. In astronomy, cosmogony is the study of the origin of particular astrophysical objects or systems, and is most commonly used in reference to the origin of the universe, the Solar System, or the Earth–Moon system.

  6. Theory of everything - Wikipedia

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    A theory of everything (TOE), final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory, or master theory is a singular, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all aspects of the universe. [1]: 6 Finding a theory of everything is one of the major unsolved problems in physics. [2] [3]

  7. Universal evolution - Wikipedia

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    Universal evolution is a theory of evolution formulated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Julian Huxley that describes the gradual development of the Universe from subatomic particles to human society, considered by Teilhard as the last stage.

  8. West Virginia governor signs vague law allowing teachers to ...

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    The legislation allows public school teachers to answer student questions "about scientific theories of how the universe and/or life came to exist.” ... and must have been created by an ...

  9. Universe - Wikipedia

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    The physical universe is defined as all of space and time [a] (collectively referred to as spacetime) and their contents. [10] Such contents comprise all of energy in its various forms, including electromagnetic radiation and matter, and therefore planets, moons, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space.